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river-clamp

Energy; Natural gas

Long, heavy iron or concrete sleeves installed on a pipeline to prevent injury to pipe laid in a river bottom and to weight the pipe. Sometimes known as river weights or dogs.

maximum day allocation

Energy; Natural gas

See DESIGN DAY AVAILABILITY.

killing a well

Energy; Natural gas

The act of bringing under control a well which is blowing out; also applied to the procedure of circulating water and mud into a completed well before starting well operations.

absolute viscosity

Energy; Natural gas

The measure of a fluid's tendency to resist flow, without regard to its density. By definition, the product of a fluid's kinematic viscosity times its density.

rate

Energy; Natural gas

The unit charge or charges made to the customers for natural gas.

straddle point

Energy; Natural gas

A gas plant constructed near a transmission company pipeline downstream from the fields where the gas is produced, also referred to as "on-line" plants. The gas is sold at the ...

regulator, monitoring

Energy; Natural gas

A pressure regulator set in series with a control pressure regulator for the purpose of automatically taking over, in an emergency, the control of the pressure downstream of the ...